Application Architect - Legal, Risk, and Regulatory

at Deloitte & Touche L.L.P.

Job Description

Deloitte Services LP includes internal support areas such as Marketing and Communications, Human Resources/Talent, Information Technology, Facilities Management, and Financial Support Services.

Application Architect

Location: Hermitage/Nashville, TN

Are you passionate about technology and interested in joining a community of collaborative colleagues who respectfully and courageously seek to challenge the status quo? If so, read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity with Deloitte's Information Technology Services (ITS). We are insatiably curious and life-long learners focused on technology and innovation.

Work you'll do

We are currently looking for a passionate, innovative, results-oriented technology leader with heart-deep commitment to success to be a part of our Technology Delivery Studio. This role requires architecture design leadership for various lines of business and enterprise applications for custom web solutions and 3rd party vendor products. Responsible for web application architecture, service architecture, and technical design for high performance and scalability in a distributed, multi-tier and cross-platform mobile environment. This role requires extensive experience in architecting and deploying web-based and web-enabled business applications, and must possess hands-on experience in coding, deploying distributed architectures and platforms, creating benchmark tests, designing for scalability and performance, and implementing large-scale vendor systems.

Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.

Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.

Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.

Applied research and development, prototyping, and vendor evaluations

Providing expert knowledge of mobile application architecture to business and technology teams and facilitate the collaborative development of the technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.

Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.

Working with business clients and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs.

Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.

Communicating implications of architectural decisions, technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements to business and IT Leadership.

Anticipating barriers to change and creating opportunities to remove them.

Creating a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.

Exhibiting high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.

Mentoring technical leads and developers.

The team

Members of our ITS team work behind the scenes, but are essential to the Deloitte organization. Our ITS team develop custom enterprise applications and provide IT infrastructure support to clients to ensure that they sustain a competitive advantage and stay ahead of the innovation curve. Our team has the analytical skills needed to parse mountains of data, the technical proficiency required to deliver custom solutions, and stellar communications skills needed to present research, discovery, and recommendations in logical and easily understandable ways.

The ~2,200 professionals in ITS deliver services including:

Security, risk & compliance

Technology support

Infrastructure

Applications

Relationship management

Strategy

Deployment

PMO

Financials

Communications

Deloitte Application Studios (DAS)

Deloitte Application Studios (DAS) is the internal software and applications development team responsible for delivering leading-edge technologies to Deloitte professionals. Their broad portfolio includes web and mobile productivity tools which empower our people to log expenses, enter timesheets, book travel and more, anywhere, anytime. DAS enables our client service professionals through a comprehensive suite of applications across the business lines. In addition to application delivery, DAS offers full-scale design services, a robust mobile portfolio, cutting-edge analytics, and innovative custom development.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required:

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related discipline. While an advanced degree is preferred, the value is placed on the extent of the relevant experience and accomplishments

Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills to earn support of business leaders, technology leaders, colleagues, and vendor representatives.

Experience with Microsoft and Apple frameworks, with extensive knowledge of technical design patterns and anti-patterns.

Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.

Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.

Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity.

Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.

Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.

How you'll grow

At Deloitte, we help you shape the future direction of your career. We offer comprehensive development planning as well as training, mentoring, and coaching to help you grow from within. From hands-on experience to increases in responsibility to rewarding teamwork, Deloitte nurtures talent by providing supportive leadership.

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our people to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them to be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and are continuously looking for new ways to maintain a culture where our people excel and lead healthy, happy lives. Learn more about Life at Deloitte.

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